Panthers 4, Capitals 3 (OT)
Dennis Wideman scored the game-winning goal on the power play at 2:51 of overtime and Stephen Weiss recorded three assists to pace the Florida Panthers to a 4-3 victory over the visiting Washington Capitals on Tuesday.
Mike Santorelli, Marty Reasoner and David Booth also scored and Tomas Vokoun made 30 saves for Florida. The Panthers, who scored three power-play goals, jumped out to a 3-0 lead before allowing the Capitals to crawl back to send the game to overtime.
Santorelli opened the scoring at 9:52 of the first period with his 12th of the season on the power play and Reasoner extended the lead less than three minutes later with a deflection from in front of the net.
Booth made it 3-0 with another power-play tally 6:48 into the second period.
Marcus Johansson put Washington on the board at the 10:10 mark of the second and Mike Knuble scored his 10th of the season from Alexander Ovechkin and Nicklas Backstrom just over three minutes later.
Johansson struck again with his fifth of the season to tie the game at 7:12 of the third period.
Michal Neuvirth made 37 saves in a losing cause.